§ Mr. Frank CookTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Mr. Hargreaves), of 20 February,Official Report, column 677, if he will (a) list and (b) make a statement on the regeneration schemes to be brought forward by the Teesside development corporation. [19232]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe increase in funding for the Teesside development corporation in 1996–97 was a result of bringing forward part of the grant in aid already allocated to the development corporation for 1997–98. There was no extra public funding involved. The corporation was offered the possibility of earlier availability of funding as part of a wider readjustment of the single regeneration budget, of which urban development corporations now form a part. Adjustments of this sort are part of the routine financial management of the SRB.
TDC's corporation plan for the remainder of its life, until it is wound up in March 1998, includes the completion of its work at Teesdale and at Middlesbrough dock. The corporation will now be in a position to bring forward work on that programme.